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== Marche was being manipulated by the Totema to remove his and his friends' influence on Ivalice. ==
After accidentally freeing the first Totema, they start telling him exactly what he wants to hear: that Ivalice is "fake" and that he has to destabilize the world to return himself and his unwilling friends to their own world. Oddly, he accepts the contradictory idea that all of his native friends in Ivalice will be fine if he does this.
* Note that the Totema are all based on past ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' ''villains'', and in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' are all considered to be fallen angels -- in other words, not trustworthy sources of information.
* In the [[What If]] post-game, it's revealed that had Marche been fully assimilated into Ivalice, he would have become a Judgemaster and would have cleaned up corruption among the Judges. Judge corruption is widely present in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' - the only Judge we're shown who ''isn't'' corrupt is killed in her second cutscene.
* None of the other universes the book created have survived because they were tied to their creators; when their creators died, the universe died as well. When Normal Marche, Ritz, Mewt, and Doned were returned to the real world, the Ivalice counterparts that they were basically inhabiting remained, which is why you could play even after the end of the game.
** What about the post-game mission where you find Mewt's teddy bear? I believe the game made mention of Prince Mewt vanishing.
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== Marche subconsciously created the Ivalice Alliance World ==
The Ivalice of ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' came about so that Marche wouldn't feel guilty about destroying the "fake" Ivalice, even while he justified it as not being real. This is where all new souls who were present in Ivalice the World but not the Earth City of Ivalice ended up in.
* This might possibly explain ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics a 2A2]]''.
** What's even more notable to back this up is all the cameos that cross-intersect the Ivalice games. An obvious one that happens quite early in the game is [[Intellectual Animal|Montblanc]] and his members appearing in ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' as a quite dominant and popular clan around the area. Montblanc even makes remarks implying past adventures with what is assumed to be Marche. In addition, we see Luso in the PSP port of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics]]''. So, in a sense, ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' is secretly a [[Prequel]].
 
== The Ivalice of FFTA is a temporary fusion of geography and people from Earth and the "actual" Ivalice. ==
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* [[Self -Insert Fic]]: Mewt, Ritz, Marche, and Donned are all guilty of taking part in this, for obvious reasons.
** FFTA2 has this even worse, as Luso acts almost exactly as if he were really in a self insert fic.
* [[Mary Sue]]: Mewt. just... Mewt.
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== Ivalice was a [[World Half Empty]] ==
More specifically, it was heaven for its makers and hell for almost everyone else. This is more evident in the Japanese version, which talks of how many innocent people are dying in the nonstop battles, and also makes Mewt, Ritz, and Doned ''much'' more self-centered and annoying. For bonus points, pay close attention the first time you rescue Professor Auggie--the zombies you slay bear the same names as the kids who bullied Mewt in the beginning, inviting the question of whether he deliberately made them into wandering lost souls.
* Note that each sucessive FFT game is [[Softer And Lighter]] than the previous: FFT was darker than FFTA, and [[FFTA 2]] was basically a [[Self -Insert Fic]] of FFTA.
 
== Marche destroyed Ivalice out of jealously ==
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== The Ivalice in FFTA was real. ==
As an earlier WMG has pointed out, the Totema were based off of pretty much fallen angels who were likely not good sources of information. But my main argument is actually that all the characters, even the "fake" ones, had thoughts and emotions. You can practically hear the sadness in Babus' voice and the contempt in Llednar Twem's. They were not zombies. We can tell because there were actual zombies involved, too. I am not arguing that the Ivalice was the same Ivalice in FFT and [[FF 12]]FF12, just that it was an actual world, and that Marche was manipulated into committing mass murder.
* One troper's emotional reaction does not a canon make. And so what if you can "practically hear the sadness"? They're still fictional characters to us, and that also brings up the question of whether or not you can tell the difference between actors playing a character and real people.